Greenhouse gas mitigation potentials in the livestock sector

M Herrero, B Henderson, P Havlík, PK Thornton… - Nature Climate …, 2016 - nature.com
The livestock sector supports about 1.3 billion producers and retailers, and contributes 40–
50% of agricultural GDP. We estimated that between 1995 and 2005, the livestock sector …

Overcoming barriers to the adoption of climate-friendly practices in agriculture

A Wreford, A Ignaciuk, G Gruère - 2017 - oecd-ilibrary.org
Considerable efforts have been devoted to understanding and developing technologies and
practices that can help the agricultural sector reduce its greenhouse gas emissions and …

Impacts of European livestock production: nitrogen, sulphur, phosphorus and greenhouse gas emissions, land-use, water eutrophication and biodiversity

A Leip, G Billen, J Garnier, B Grizzetti… - Environmental …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Livestock production systems currently occupy around 28% of the land surface of the
European Union (equivalent to 65% of the agricultural land). In conjunction with other …

Effects of an environmental tax on meat and dairy consumption in Sweden

S Säll, M Gren - Food policy, 2015 - Elsevier
This study evaluated the environmental impacts of introducing an environmental tax on meat
and dairy consumption in Sweden. Three meat products (beef, pork and chicken), four dairy …

Determining the climate impact of food for use in a climate taxdesign of a consistent and transparent model

E Moberg, M Walker Andersson, S Säll… - … International Journal of …, 2019 - Springer
Purpose The aim of this study was to determine transparent food carbon footprint values for
use in a climate tax, using a consistent methodology across the taxed food products and …

Climate change mitigation in agriculture: barriers to the adoption of carbon farming policies in the EU

S Van Hoof - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Climate change mitigation in the agricultural sector is essential to keep the goal of limiting
global warming to 1.5° C within reach. This article explores why there has been a limited …

[HTML][HTML] Marginal climate change abatement costs in Swiss dairy production considering farm heterogeneity and interaction effects

R Huber, M Tarruella, D Schäfer, R Finger - Agricultural Systems, 2023 - Elsevier
CONTEXT Climate change mitigation in the agricultural sector is a key policy goal. Marginal
abatement cost curves allow comparing the cost-effectiveness of agricultural greenhouse …

Marginal abatement cost curves for agricultural climate policy: state-of-the art, lessons learnt and future potential

V Eory, S Pellerin, GC Garcia, H Lehtonen… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2018 - Elsevier
Combatting climate change has risen to the top of the international policy discourse.
Effective governance necessitates the generation of concise information on the costs …

The impacts of agricultural subsidies of Common Agricultural Policy on agricultural emissions

JM Balogh - Agricultural Economics-Zemedelska …, 2023 - unipub.lib.uni-corvinus.hu
Agriculture is one of the main contributors to carbon emissions and is also significantly
affected by changing climate. This article investigates the impacts of agricultural support on …

Options to overcome the barriers to pricing European agricultural emissions

G Grosjean, S Fuss, N Koch, BL Bodirsky… - Climate …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Although agriculture could contribute substantially to European emission reductions, its
mitigation potential lies untapped and dormant. Market-based instruments could be pivotal …